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Feb 9, 2020
02/20
Feb 9, 2020
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This is the full 2-2-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On January 19th the Chicago labor and social justice movements lost a dedicated organizer, spokesperson and fighter. James Thindwa touched many lives in a host of vital social movements in Chicago and beyond. Whether as an African solidarity activist, the staff director of Citizen Action Coalition of Indiana and Ohio, the lead organizer in Chicago for Metro Seniors in Action, the ED of Chicago Jobs with Justice or his last...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, James Thindwa, Zimbabwe, Fight for 15, Black Lives Matter,...
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Jan 22, 2020
01/20
Jan 22, 2020
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 1-19-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. John Ocampo, union organizer with UE (United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America) and member of the board of directors of the Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) and US Labor Against the War (USLAW) reports back from a recent labor delegation to Colombia. Colombia is currently experiencing the most significant wave of street protests the nation has seen in decades with Colombians fed up with the right wing...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Colombia, Latin America, Human Rights, Neoliberalism, John...
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9.0
Jan 6, 2020
01/20
Jan 6, 2020
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 1-5-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Oscar Chacón, Executive Director of Alianza Americas, discusses the current state of struggles for a just society across Latin America. It is a wide-ranging conversation about the current situation in Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and the rest of the hemisphere and the history of how we have come to this point. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Chile, Latin America, Human Rights, Neoliberalism, Oscar...
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4.0
Dec 24, 2019
12/19
Dec 24, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 12-22-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Chilean human rights activist Mario Venegas, victim of the Pinochet regime who has made Chicago his home for the last 30 years, talks about his recent visit to Chile and the ongoing uprising there challenging the very foundations of the neoliberal state. Plus, Angela Davis speaks at the refounding convention of the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Chile, Latin America, Human Rights, Neoliberalism, Mario...
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3.0
Dec 22, 2019
12/19
Dec 22, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 12-8-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode includes a speech given by presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Chicago Teachers Union as they voted to launch their historic 2019 strike. It also includes a interview with Shaun Richman, an In These Times contributing writer and the Program Director of the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies at SUNY Empire State College analyzing Sanders labor platform conducted by Ken Nash of...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, SEIU, strike, public education, Bernie...
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4.0
Dec 2, 2019
12/19
Dec 2, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 11-24-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode features an interview with veteran Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teacher, Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) bargaining team member and one of CORE’s (Caucus of Rank and File Educators) founders, Kenzo Shibata about the recently concluded CTU/SEIU strike at CPS with an analysis of the strike, the resulting new 5 year contract and its implications for the future. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, SEIU, strike, public education, teachers
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9.0
Nov 4, 2019
11/19
Nov 4, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 11-3-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. The Tale of Two Strikes: Labor Express examines the outcome of both the UAW strike at GM and the CTU strike at CPS, two potentially historic strikes with radically different results. Plus, strike victory at yet another Chicago charter school, Passages in the Edgewater Neighborhood. These strikes may well set the stage for union struggles in the public and private sectors for years to come. In the case of the CTU, the...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, UAW, United Auto...
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Oct 23, 2019
10/19
Oct 23, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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CTU President Jesse Sharkey and SEIU Local 73 Vice-President Jeffrey Howard speak to the press on day 6 of the CTU-SEIU 73 Chicago Public Schools strike. They discuss the letter from Mayor Lori Lightfoot that indicated that the City and the Board are not serious about making progress in contract negotiations. Jesse and Jeffrey discuss outstanding issues in negotiations like class sizes and prep time for teachers and PSRPs. The impromptu press conference followed the rally headlined by...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, SEIU Local 73, SEIU,...
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Oct 22, 2019
10/19
Oct 22, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 10-20-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and SEIU Local 73 on strike! We have been talking about it for months and now its finally here. The two unions and the Chicago board of ed could not reach agreement and so as of Thursday, October 17th, teachers, PSRPs and other support staff including everybody from custodians to security personnel, to lunch room attendants, to bus aides, etc. went out on strike - some over 30,000 workers...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, SEIU Local 73, SEIU,...
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Oct 20, 2019
10/19
Oct 20, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Labor Express Radio reporter Michelle Burke interviews Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center biology teacher David Kaplan about why he has joined 30,000 of his fellow coworkers on strike. David starts by discussing the state of contract negotiations as of Thursday Oct. 17th the start of the strike.
Topics: workers, union, justice, labor, Chicago, schools, education, CPS, public schools, public education,...
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Oct 19, 2019
10/19
Oct 19, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Belding Elementary School special ed teacher Chris Hartwig, member of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and special education teacher assistant Marnita Hayes, member of SEIU Local 73, explain why they are on strike with over 30,000 of their fellow workers at Chicago public schools. The interviewer is Labor Express Radio reporter Marnie Goodfriend.
Topics: workers, union, justice, labor, Chicago, schools, education, CPS, public schools, public education,...
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Oct 13, 2019
10/19
Oct 13, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 10-6-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interview with Scott Houldieson, Vice President of UAW Local 551 and long-time UAW reform activist about the ongoing UAW strike at GM. And in the second half of the program, the Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 vote to strike by huge margins of their membership. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, UAW, United Auto...
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Oct 6, 2019
10/19
Oct 6, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 9-22-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. STRIKE! Nurses strike in Chicago, auto workers strike across the country and students strike for climate justice around the globe, as Chicago teachers get closer to a possible strike of their own. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, nurses, NNU,...
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Oct 4, 2019
10/19
Oct 4, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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In this interview with Scott Houldieson, Vice President of UAW Local 551*, 30 year production worker at the Ford assembly plant on the far Southside of Chicago and long-time union reform activist, Scott talks about the importance of the UAW strike at GM and its outcome to the fate of the industrial working class in the United States. In particular, we discuss issues like multi-tier wage and benefit structures that were implemented in the auto plants during the Great Recession and which have...
Topics: GM, UAW, United Auto Workers, Union, worker, justice, labor, strike
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Sep 3, 2019
09/19
Sep 3, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 9-1-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. The last in our three-part series looking at the historic political changes in Chicago this past year. Also on the episode, Chicago teachers move closer to a possible strike. And transit workers, members of Transit Workers Unite, gear up for their own contract fight at the end of the year. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, socialists,...
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9.0
Aug 18, 2019
08/19
Aug 18, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 8-18-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This second episode in our series looking at the political transformation that swept Chicago this year features audio captured at the Chicago People’s Inaugural held at the Chicago Teachers' Union Hall on June 29th. It includes speeches made by five of the six aldermen that make up the new socialist caucus on the Chicago City Council. It also includes a presentation of many of the major issues facing the city and the...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, socialists,...
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Aug 15, 2019
08/19
Aug 15, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 8-4-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interview with Joe Allen on the rise of left-wing politics in Chicago: Chicago is leading the nation right now in a budding and growing working class fight back. It dates back to 2012 and the Chicago teachers strike that year whose impact continues to ripple across the nation. That strike launched a rise of teacher union militancy that has brought back the strike weapon to the class struggle battlefield in this country. ...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, socialists,...
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Jul 17, 2019
07/19
Jul 17, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Congressman Jesús "Chuy" García speaks at the July 13, 2019 rally to "End Criminalization, Detention and Deportation" in Chicago.
Topics: immigration, immigrants rights, deportations, ICE
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May 13, 2019
05/19
May 13, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 5-12-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the last episode of Labor Express Radio, I predicted that May Day 2019 might turn out to be the most exciting May Day in Chicago since the mega-marches of 2006. And that prediction turned out to be accurate. As forecast, 5 charter schools went out on strike that day across the city. They were joined by the clerical workers at the Chicago City Colleges, members of the Federation of College Clerical and Technical...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, charter schools, Chicago Teachers Union
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Apr 30, 2019
04/19
Apr 30, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 4-28-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Mayday is just a few days away and this looking to be a particularly exciting May Day in Chicago. Not because there are any mega-marches planned on the scale of those we saw back in 2006 and 2007. No, march and rally planning this year seems to be pretty small scale, even compared to recent years. But this May Day we celebrate a 6 member socialist caucus in the Chicago City Council which begins its term in office later...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, UIC GEO, University of Illinois Chicago, Graduate...
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Apr 10, 2019
04/19
Apr 10, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 4-7-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) strike enters its second month with negotiations over a new contract at an impasse. The musicians union is doing what it can, however, to make the best of a bad situation by providing free concerts to Chicagoans across the city. It is a way for the union to thank Chicago residents for their continued solidarity while also reaching working-class...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, CSO, musicians, UIC...
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Apr 3, 2019
04/19
Apr 3, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) strike drags on, entering its 4th week last Sunday (March 31st). All regularly scheduled concerts have been canceled through April 9th as negotiations seem to be at an impasse. It is a difficult situation for the CSO musicians whose livelihoods are on the line, but they have been making the best of a bad situation, bringing free music to hundreds of Chicagoans across the city. For the past couple weeks, the musicians have been organizing and performing...
Topics: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, CSO, strike, worker, justice, union, Chicago
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Mar 27, 2019
03/19
Mar 27, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 3-24-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) goes on strike! The CSO is the most well-attended classical music venue in Chicago and performs more concerts than any symphony orchestra in the United States, and the third most in the world. The CSO Board of Trustees spends nearly two-thirds of their revenues on the building and non-Orchestra employees and allocates little more than 1/3 of...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, teachers, schools, ChiArts, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Mar 27, 2019
03/19
Mar 27, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 3-3-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express, I rebroadcast an interview with economist Dr. Jack Rasmus I originally broadcast on the Oct. 7th, 2018 episode of Labor Express. The interview discusses the concept of Universal Basic Income or UBI. The idea of providing every citizen a subsistence income not tied to work. The reason I have chosen to rebroadcast the interview tonight is that in early February, The Chicago Resilient...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, teachers, schools, Oakland, California, Universal Basic...
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Mar 18, 2019
03/19
Mar 18, 2019
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Marnie Goodfriend
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Labor Express Radio reporter Marnie Goodfriend reports on the CSO Musicians Strike... Today, March 18th, 2019, the strike by the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) members of the Chicago Federation of Musicians (CFM), American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 10-208, enters its second week. The CSO is the most well-attended classical music venue in Chicago and performs more concerts than any symphony orchestra in the United States, and third most in the world. The CSO Board...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Federation of...
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Feb 18, 2019
02/19
Feb 18, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 2-17-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express, Chicago teachers keep making history! Last December we reported on the first ever strike by charter school teachers anywhere at the Acero charter school network. That strike, lasting less than a week achieved major gains for teachers and students alike including reduced class sizes, better, more equitable pay, better resources for special education students and sanctuary...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, teachers, schools, public education, privatization,...
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Feb 10, 2019
02/19
Feb 10, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 2-3-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. LA teachers win a historic victory after 6 days on strike! As we reported on our last episode, on January 14th UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles) launched the first strike by LA teachers in 30 years. It was a bold move forced upon the union by 21 months of fruitless negotiations with LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District). Once again, public school teachers proved to the nation that strikes can win and that the...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Los Angeles, LA, teachers, California, schools, public...
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Jan 23, 2019
01/19
Jan 23, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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On Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019, UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles) leadership announced that UTLA and LAUSD had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract for UTLA’s 33,000 members. The announcement came on the 6th day of a strike that had caught the attention of the nation. Though the majority of Los Angeles teachers voted in favor of the new tentative agreement between UTLA and LAUSD, there was a vocal minority who were disappointed with the limited gains in the TA. Their voice...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Los Angeles, LA, teachers, California, schools, public...
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Jan 23, 2019
01/19
Jan 23, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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On Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019, UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles) leadership announced that UTLA and LAUSD had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract for UTLA’s 33,000 members. The announcement came on the 6th day of a strike that had caught the attention of the nation. There is widespread agreement among UTLA members and their supporters that the strike was a tremendous success in regards to the overall fight to defend public education not only in Los Angeles and not only in...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Los Angeles, LA, teachers, California, schools, public...
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Jan 23, 2019
01/19
Jan 23, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Los Angeles 5th grade teacher Charles Stam talks about the successful 6 day strike by LA teachers, members of UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). The interview took place on the 6th and final day of the strike at a massive rally in Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles. Charles discusses a number of things including the widespread public support for the strike and the importance of the strike to the nationwide effort to defend public education against funding cuts, disinvestment and...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Los Angeles, LA, teachers, California, schools, public...
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Jan 23, 2019
01/19
Jan 23, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 1-20-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express, LA teachers go on strike! On Monday, Jan. 14th, after 21 months of fruitless negotiations, teachers in the 2nd largest school district in the nation have had enough. They have taken to the streets in what is by anyone's estimation one of the most lively, boisterous, and determined labor actions by a union in recent U.S. labor history. At recent rallies in LA crowd numbers have...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Los Angeles, LA, teachers, California, schools, public...
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Jan 14, 2019
01/19
Jan 14, 2019
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 1-6-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Tonight’s episode of Labor Express, the first of 2019, is a sort of look back at a few of the highlights of the year just passed. As well as a possible preview of coming attractions for the new year. First we have have audio from a newly released Labor Beat TV video of a informational picket by airport workers in Chicago who work for Envoy, formerly known as American Eagle. These members of the Communication Workers of...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers
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Dec 24, 2018
12/18
Dec 24, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 12-16-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express charter school teachers in Chicago win a historic victory. When charter school’s, a form of public school privatization, became a thing roughly two decades ago, it was rather blatantly used as a tool to try to bust teacher unions. Chicago under Daley and then Rahm, embraced charter schools, opening dozens in a short time and leading the nation in this particular privatization...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, charter schools, Acero, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU,...
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Dec 11, 2018
12/18
Dec 11, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 12-2-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express we hear from workers at the only hotel in Chicago still out on strike. UNITE-HERE Local 1 has signed contracts with over 26 hotels in the past couple months, but the Cambria Hotel in Downtown Chicago is still refusing to agree to a fair contract. Instead, unlike all the other Chicago area hotels, the Cambria is looking to increase the workload for housekeepers. Also, as 2018 nears...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, MeToo, women, sexual harassment, McDonalds, Cambria Hotel,...
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Nov 24, 2018
11/18
Nov 24, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Cambria hotel workers still on strike after nearly 11 weeks: On Labor Express Radio we have been reporting on both the Chicago hotel strike and the nationwide Marriott Hotels strikes since they were launched last September. The good news so far is that all but one of the Chicago hotel strikes has ended with new contracts that meet the union’s key demands. Likewise, the Marriott Hotel strikes in Boston, San Jose and Oakland have ended with contact gains as well. However, strikes are still...
Topics: Chicago, workers, labor, justice, union, strike, UNITE-HERE, hotel, Cambria, Marnie Goodfriend
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Nov 21, 2018
11/18
Nov 21, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 11-11-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. At the end of every episode of Labor Express Radio I refer to Chicago as the world capital of the labor movement. The statement is of course hyperbole, generated out of a deep sense of Chicago pride. In reality of course the labor movement has no real capital, no real center, it is international and the frontlines of its battles are always shifting. But there is a kernel of truth to my exaggeration in that Chicago has,...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, IG Metall, Germany, 8 hour day, working day, hours of...
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Oct 23, 2018
10/18
Oct 23, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 10-21-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Tonight's program is a rare live in-studio episode, featuring an interview with Joe Allen, author of The Package King: A Rank and File History of United Parcel Service . I discuss with Joe the recent betrayal of the Teamsters members who work for UPS by the Hoffa leadership. The Teamsters have been in negotiations with UPS over a new 5 year contract for the past several months. UPS is demanding major concessions,...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Teamsters, UPS, logistics, Joe Allen
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Oct 9, 2018
10/18
Oct 9, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 10-7-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight's program I will air an interview I conducted by phone last June with economist Dr. Jack Rasmus about the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Dr. Rasmus and I discuss why there has been a great deal of discussion of this idea as of late and particularly why it seems popular with billionaire CEOs in the tech world and other new emerging industries in our economy. Is UBI an answer to the rise of automation...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, universal basic income, UBI, automation, Jack Rasmus
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Sep 19, 2018
09/18
Sep 19, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 9-16-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express we hear from hotel workers, members of UNITE-HERE Local 1, who are on strike across Chicago at the moment. On September 7th, a week after the expiration of the union’s contracts at dozens of Chicago area hotels, UNITE-HERE launched a strike that affects some 26 hotels in the city and involves some 6,000 workers. It is I believe the largest strike in Chicago, since the teachers strike in...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, UNITE-HERE, hotel workers
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Jul 27, 2018
07/18
Jul 27, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 7-22-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s program I discuss the recent historic elections in Mexico with Alan Benjamin of the San Francisco Labor Council who is also very active with unions and workers organizations in Mexico. The election of the leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador by the widest margin of any presidential candidate in Mexico’s recent political history could have tremendous implications for the working people of Mexico...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Mexico, AMLO, Gary, airport, deportations, immigrants
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Jul 10, 2018
07/18
Jul 10, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 7-8-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio includes updates on a couple issues we have been covering on the program over the past couple months. First, on June 27th the U.S. Supreme Court finally announced their decision in the Janus Case and as we all expected the decision eliminated the ability of public sector unions to collect fair share fees from the workers they represent. It is a devastating blow to the labor...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, immigrants, separation of families, Trump, migrants,...
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Jun 25, 2018
06/18
Jun 25, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 6-24-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Here on Labor Express we understand that immigrant rights are workers rights and vice versa. It's impossible to defend workers rights, organize, and advance a working class agenda while a major component of the working class, immigrants, fear for their most basic security, for their very lives and that of their families. Just as the advance of organized labor in our country in the 19th century absolutely required the...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, immigrants, separation of families, Trump, migrants,...
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Jun 19, 2018
06/18
Jun 19, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 6-10-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Over a month ago on this program I had to announce the sad news of the passing Labor Beat TV co-founder and chief producer Larry Duncan. At the time I mentioned that I would have more to say on this on upcoming episodes of Labor Express. Well, tonight I want to let all of our listeners know that a memorial service has been organized to celebrate Larry’s life and legacy on August 4th at the new Chicago Teachers Union Hall...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Larry Duncan, Labor Beat TV, Wayne Heimbach, media
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Jun 19, 2018
06/18
Jun 19, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 5-27-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight's program, Arise Chicago Workers Center has been pushing the Chicago City Council to create an Office of Labor Standards, and now it looks like the likelihood of this becoming a reality is very good as 70% of the City Council has endorsed the proposal. If an Office of Labor Standards is created, it will improve enforcement of all the other pro-worker ordinances Arise convinced the council to pass in recent...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Arise Chicago, workers centers, ChiActs, CTU-Acts,...
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May 6, 2018
05/18
May 6, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 5-6-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. I hope all of our listeners had a celebratory and energizing May Day this year. We are going to need that renewed energy as the working class is facing some very difficult battles on the horizon. Today’s program being the first since this years May Day which was of course last Tuesday, we will feature audio captured from around the country on May 1st. Like the weather and unlike the time clock we will start once again...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, May Day, May 1st, International...
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Apr 22, 2018
04/18
Apr 22, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 4-22-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. April 6th through the 8th, Chicago hosted the 2018 Labor Notes conference. Labor Notes is a media and organizing project and a network of rank-and-file union members, local union leaders, and labor activists that has been fighting to put the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. The Labor Notes conference held every two years is the premier event for labor movement activists from around the country to come...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, West Virginia, schools, teachers, CTU, Chicago Teachers...
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Apr 10, 2018
04/18
Apr 10, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 4-8-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the last episode of Labor Express you heard from West Virginia elementary school math teacher Olivia Morris about the recent historic, successful and inspirational West Virginia teachers strike. A rank-and-file lead, technically illegal state wide strike that resulted in the seemingly impossible - a 5% wage increase for all state employees, was a clear demonstration of working class power and the ability to fight back and...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, West Virginia, schools, teachers, CTU, Chicago Teachers...
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Mar 25, 2018
03/18
Mar 25, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 3-25-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the last several programs of Labor Express Radio, I have spent much of the episode discussing the likely outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court case Janus v. American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. Most observers expect the conservative leaning court will agree with Janus and his corporate supporters and eliminate the ability of public sector unions to collect what are called agency fees or fair share...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, West Virginia, schools, teachers, CTU, Chicago Teachers...
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Mar 25, 2018
03/18
Mar 25, 2018
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Dale Lehman & Jerry Mead-Lucero
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West Virginia elementary school math teacher Olivia Morris, talks to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) about the historic West Virginia state-wide, rank-and-file organized, teachers strike of March 2018 which defied the state’s regressive labor laws and won all state employees a 5% wage increase. CTU Political and Legislative Director Stacy Davis Gates interviewed Morris at a CTU event on March 9th.
Topics: workers, labor, justice, union, teachers, Chicago, West Virginia, strike, wages, public sector,...
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Mar 6, 2018
03/18
Mar 6, 2018
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 2-25-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express as promised, we continue our look at the likely challenges, obstacles and opportunities for the U.S, Labor Movement in the coming year. 2018 will likely be another very difficult year for the U.S. working class so I have reached out to a few long time friends of Labor Express to discuss what we are facing in the next 11 months and beyond. In the second half of the program, we will...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, economy, unemployment, NAFTA, Honduras, schools, teachers,...
